The President’s democracy-shaking comments late today — flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Adviser John Bolton, and in the presence of the nation’s military leaders — is deservedly overshadowing the underlying FBI raids on his attorney, Michael Cohen. But Tierney Sneed scrambled to get the immediate reaction of leading legal experts on the Justice Department’s big move against Cohen and what it means. Here’s her report.
The New York Times is reporting this evening that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating a $150,000 donation — in 2015, during the campaign — to Donald Trump’s foundation from Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk which was solicited by none other than Michael Cohen. In return, Trump made a 20-minute appearance via video link to a Kiev conference, the Times reports:
First comments from President Trump on the Cohen raid (from the pool report) …
Quick comments: “it’s a disgraceful situation.”
“I have this witch hunt constantly going on.”
“It’s an attack on on our country…what we all stand for.”
Also called the special counsel “the most conflicted group of people I have ever seen.”
Trump went on to criticize AG Jeff Sessions for recusing himself and repeatedly said no one “is looking at the other side,” referring to Clinton’s 30k emails and “many many” other things.
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